Posts by Sora2566

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

"We'll let the victims sue the people making porn of them!"

If the porn-makers can't be identified, what use is that? Why not just make it illegal, and thus the police's job to find and punish these people?

Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right

I'm fully expecting LLM hype to crash in the next couple years, just like NFTs.

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

You cannot be *targeted* by ads. That's different from not being *shown* any ads.

Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases

On one hand, Apple is 100% being a monopoly here and the fine is more than justified. Frankly, it's underwhelming.

On the other hand... Russia.

Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels' bad attitude

Darn. Hopefully they can get it working again... if not, glad they got *something* out of it.

Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it's slowing similar initiatives

Re: Intrinsic bias in AI hiring algorithms /s

More like "because they are trained on mostly white people, because that's who live in Silicon Valley".

Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer

Re: Linked to ten-million-record leak

'Cybercriminal' is the new 'terrorist' - and governments have been slapping sanctions on those without a trial for years.

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook

It's kind of amazing how surveillance capitalism simultaneously produces the results of "How collect so much information on me to target ads!" and "How do you not have enough information to target ads at me yet?!"

Facial recognition tech has outpaced US law – and don't expect the Feds to catch up

Corporate lobbing has done so much damage to the world it isn't funny.

US Supreme Court doesn't want to hear Apple, Epic's gripes about in-app purchases

"Cupertino insists on collecting a cut of sales, up to 27 percent, even if a non-Apple system is used."

How in the holy heck do they plan on enforcing that???

"Gimme 27% of your revenue."

"No, it's mine."

"It was referred to you from our app store!"

"Prove it."

How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing

"Daniel Huynh, CEO at Mithril Security, said in a recent post that while this may seem like a theoretical concern, it has the potential to harm the entire software ecosystem."

Only if programmers are lazy enough to just copy-paste what an AI says without reading it...

...

...we're doomed.

OpenAI tweaks its fine print, removes explicit ban on 'military and warfare' use

Anyone else getting a "Don't be evil" vibe from this change?

Uncle Sam tells hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal dollars for you

Re: They knew what they were getting into. I say let them crash!

So what you're telling me is, if this hospital gets ransomware'd, they'd have no ability to recover or even pay the ransom, and would have to close anyway?

Re: They knew what they were getting into. I say let them crash!

I dunno... making their funding conditional on basic best practice does feel like the only way to convince some boards that yes, they *do* in fact need to take action.

If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam

Seems like a pretty basic covering of their behind to me...

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

That sucks.

If they have no other source of income and cannot afford to say no, to the point where Uber etc can assign them any job and they'll do it, then they're an employee under this test.

If they have the financial ability to tell Uber etc to get lost, *then* they're actually a contractor.

Pro tip: If someone tells you how much you are going to be paid and what work you are going to do, and you can't say no, then you're an employee, not a contractor.

This rule of thumb thus indicates that most doctors in America are employees of the insurance companies, not the hospitals/practices etc.

Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe

Re: In All The Good Democracies ...

Yes, but the *Republican and Democrat parties* are the ones running the elections, even if at the state level. This is how gerrymandering exists. Down here in Australia, elections are run by an independent body, not by career politicians.

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

Re: "I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet."

They found a ticket on the phone for the plane that had a hole in it.

Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365

Remember the days when the actual rocket science was the most complex thing going on at NASA?

Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions

Well, that's terrifying. Is there anything for your average joe to do about attacks like these, aside from keeping your antivirus updated?

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'

Hey, if nothing else this will be an interesting proof of concept for anyone looking to put computers in space going forward.

Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck

I'm pretty sure each of those three knows more about making cars than Musk does, three times over. Probably more about boats too.

FCC reminds US mobile carriers that customer data needs to be protected

There are a bunch of smartphone apps that do this - the ones that ask you to scan a QR code are doing this.

Or - hear me out here - we all agree that MFA over SMS is basically worthless, and we all switch to TOTP instead.

Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly

For crying out loud... just break it up already. We've all got eyes. We can all see what they're doing is classic Monopolising. While you're at it, break up the rest of FAANG too.

Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs

This will be great for security! It'll be such an irresistible target for hackers that they'll be able to get a headcount of bad guys by the constant hammering on their servers trying to get all that juicy, irresistible classified and stolen information inside!

Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Hey, if we can squash 70% of the bugs in these giant security-bug-prone products, I'm all for it.

I fully expect the transition to take over a decade though.

US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs

I'm guessing it was intended to stop companies from revealing when the US had requested their data, but the law was very vaguely worded.

China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz

Well, at least it's not another cringy song...

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

Re: Dear editor

http://www.httpvshttps.com/

11 seconds on http, less than a second on https.

Yes, the real difference is that http can't use http/2... but that doesn't stop it from being the case that if you wanna go fast on the internet, you NEED https.

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage/

X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club

Well, America wasn't going to hold them to account, so I guess I can take pride in even this weak action?

At least it isn't measured in minutes of profit, given that Xitter is currently operating in the red...

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

-headdesk-

That privacy case in the EU might have to be updated to a anti-monopoly one as well...

Your password hygiene remains atrocious, says NordPass

Well, it's about time somebody's trying to staunch the gushing wound that is port-out fraud... people really need to learn that text-based 2FA is really not secure.

Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download

"The web giant also wants damages, including all the money made from the scam."

Google: Nobody makes money off the gullibility of our users but us!

Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

I wish this guy the best of luck, but I don't think they've got a real chance... :(

FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse

The law usually trails tech, but it looks like the law doesn't want to get too far behind this particular development...

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

Re: Never understood certs

Certificate Transparency is designed specifically to defeat this kind of attack. "Good thing" then that Article 45 forbids it then! (It's not one of the defenses mentioned as being allowed, and browsers aren't allowed to add any not on the list.)

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription

"How could we be seen as less creepy?"

"Well, we could *be* less creepy?"

"Nah that doesn't work for us, what else you got?"

Uncle Sam snooping on US folks? Not without a warrant, lawmakers agree

Finding out that Biden opposes banning warrentless searches made me respect him just that little bit less.

I mean, I'm sure the other guy's even worse on this, but still.

US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones

At what point did the argument shift from "No, you can't scan my face without my approval" to "No, you can't duplicate my face without my approval"?

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

No, of course not.

But "did our ads load and show" which is the information they actually *want*, their check of "do you have an ad-blocker" is the wrong way to go about this - isn't that. And I'm worried that if YouTube takes off their Google hat for a minute and does this check without data-slurping, then the law will switch around to being on their side.

The EU have a problem with YouTube's activities because of the privacy-invading nature of their "are you using ad-blockers" check, not because of the check itself. If they change their check to be privacy-preserving, I'm worried the law will switch around to being on their side.

So, I think YouTube is doing a stupid here... *but*.

Blocking ads is legal - you're just choosing *not* to download something.

Blocking ad-blockers is also legal - you are allowed to make "View my ads" a condition of viewing the website, and try and enforce that.

Blocking ad-blocker-blockers is *not* legal, as you are now circumventing the "conditions of entry", as it were.

So I think that what YouTube is doing is user-hostile and they should definitely be using content-based advertising and massively ratcheting down the (download) size and interactivity of online ads as other people have said... but I'm worried that if they raise a stink about ad-blockers in a court somewhere, that they'll actually have a leg to stand on.

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

"Humanoid robots are touted to become the next disruptive thing after computers, smartphones and new energy vehicles"

Assuming they mean electric vehicles, have those actually disrupted anything? I thought the only thing they're a serious threat to would be a petrol station, and even then I'm assuming they'll pivot to being charging stations.

US officials close to persuading allies to not pay off ransomware crooks

And so, cryto became tightly regulated and tightly monitored by the government, losing its two big selling points.

Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay

"No we're not paying Apple to maintain our monopoly, we're paying them so that they don't make their own search engine and compete with us!"

"...thus, maintaining your monopoly?"

"Yes! No, um, wait...!"

Intent matters in law - the government are trying to prove that Google's payments to Apple are with the intention of maintaining a monopoly.